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Bill Gates Endorses Water From Human Waste
theodp writes: GeekWire reports that Bill gates is certainly leading by example, appearing in a video in which he sips "a glass of delicious drinking water" produced from human waste processed by Janicki Bioenergy's OmniProcessor, which can take sewer sludge and turn it into clean drinking water, electricity and clean ash. So how was it? "The water tasted as good as any I've had out of a bottle," said Bill. "And having studied the engineering behind it, I would happily drink it every day. It's that safe."
I mean the guy already excelled at selling SHIT to people for years...
witty poop joke here
Eat recycled food. It's good for the environment and safe for you.
Water's water - given the diffusion time we're probably all drinking King Tut's piss today (not to mention plenty of other peoples/animals).
Ever wonder why water treatment plants smell so bad?
A bullet may have your name on it but splash damage is addressed "To whom it may concern."
How does it feel Bill to eat poo! Take it all in.
Bill goes away and supports a machine that turns poo into drinking water
Bill responds - "It tastes great! I have also made a net profit and improved my reputation and my environmental credentials"
Turning Lemons into Lemonade is one thing. Bill can turn poo into Evian bottled water. Forget fight club, selling people their own fat asses. Bill will sell them their own shit.
You can now throw all your piss jugs out at Bill's place or at MSFT HQ.
the good ground has been paved over by suicidal maniacs
I mean the guy already excelled at selling SHIT to people for years...
While it's true that he has been selling shit all these years this the first time he publicly drinks shit water
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Calling someone a "hater" only means you can not rationally rebut their argument.
Stillsuit is the obvious application of this.
I Tell Ya What Bill.... I'll drink your poop water... If you eat the peanuts out of it FIRST... Disgusting GLOBALIST FILTH! Nobody wants your sh|t drinking, Vaccine-pushing, 1% a $ $ telling us what to eat, how to live, or what medicine we should put in our bodies... You are nothing but a clever thief... Who STOLE a good idea. YOU WILL NOT STEAL MY NICE CLEAN DRINKING WATER PUNK! So... Yeah.... EAT THE PEANUTS BILL!
The spice must flow.
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Code name: water
Fish poop in it.
(attr: William Claude Dukenfield)
"National Security is the chief cause of national insecurity." - Celine's First Law
Remember, that delicious tap water was once pooped in by a dinosaur.
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Where do people think their water comes from? Dependent on your location it is either pulled from a dam / river / ocean which has shit, corpses (animal and human), bacteria and all sorts of nasties or it comes from a waste water treatment plant after the solid waste has been removed.
The process is the same, ram the water under pressure against a membrane. Water goes through, other stuff doesn't. The biggest challenge is actually the medication that goes into the waste water system. It generally means that the solid waste that is removed by your treatment plant can't be used directly without additional treatment.
This could make more money than Microsoft. How many people on the planet would gladly pay $20 to get to piss and crap in a box and have Bill drink it. Sign me up.
Why whinge? We've been sipping his human software waste for nearly 30 years! Where's this different?
Yes, it creates electricity, water, and activated sludge... What heats the sludge? Do they start an oil based fire, and then use off-gassing from the sludge to continue the reaction?
This is a great development in a field that will likely save billions of lives. But do they really need to portray it as "produced from human waste", rather than "filtered out of sewage"? The former makes me imagine some sort of artificial process that involves bleaching poop until it's transparent then bottling it.
"The water tasted as good as any I've had out of a bottle,"
That's a pretty low bar, as anyone accustomed to drinking fresh mountain spring water can tell you. I suppose it frequently tastes a better than metropolitan city water though...
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This has been going on for billions of years.
We've been down this road before. Scum like Gates reassuring the world their HGH and Blood was as safe as it gets, before giving tens of thousands of victims fatal HIV and CJD 'infections'. How many poor black parents, desperate to 'produce' the next basketball star in the USA, helped murder their healthy child with completely non-medical doses of HGH provided by the local neighboured quack?
The infected HGH was extracted, using a new 'safe' method, from Human corpses, breaking every previous medical protocol. The blood, of course, was sourced from the American underclass, well paid to provide no-questions-asked litre after litre. When the underclass became infected with HIV, so did all the people depending on regular blood transfusions.
Some here already have commented that standard treatment plants already effectively provide drinking water from sewerage, but this age old and very tested method is NOT what the infinitely depraved Bill Gates is promoting. Gates is a EUGENICIST, from a family with the longest history in Eugenics. Gates tours the world meeting with fellow 'elites' and preaching that the Human population MUST be lowered to less than THREE BILLION using any means possible.
Bill Gates is a long-standing best friend and ally of Rupert "Fox News" Murdoch, and the two partnered to produce the infinitely evil inBloom database that tracks every aspect of every child's life in the USA. Public concern about the evil uses of inBloom have moved the project exclusively to the NSA, where the NSA uses direct access and data-mining methods to keep the database up to date.
Gates sees fellow Fabian Tony Blair as his 'god'. Gates sees his primary purpose as replicated the goals of the early 20th Century US Eugenic organisations that were DIRECTLY responsible for Adolf Hitler's policy of 'racial purity'. But by 'goals', I don't mean the same racist programs that America adopted to put 'black' Americans in their 'place' after slavery ended. I mean the goal of using pseudo-science as a means of societal control, with state-of-the-art media and education manipulation used to sell such pseudo-science to the sheeple.
The USA is especially receptive to this garbage- look at how many US sheeple mutilate their male children (and ALWAYS with US medical 'authorities' providing an ever changing pseudo-scientific justification as to why this is a good idea- the current LIE is exactly the same one used to justify FEMALE genital mutilation). BTW, before the VERY biased UN organisations got involved in AIDS research in Adrica, non-aligned researchers found VASTLY higher rates of all sexually transmitted diseases amongst the CIRCUMCISED. These researchers had no axe to grind. Only much later, when UN bodies dominated by Christian zionists and Muslims started producing reports did the claim that circumcision REDUCES the rate of AIDS infections appear. It should come as ZERO surprise to any ALPHA that damaging the Human body INCREASES vulnerability to general infection.
Margaret Thatcher gave the world 'mad cow disease' when she overturned tens of thousands of years of farming protocols, and fed infected meat to vegetarian livestock as official UK government farming policy. She, as a person with a 'scientific' background (rare in a politician) listened to Bill Gates types.
Beta nerds are so VERY thick, they fall for any depraved evil alpha or moronic beta who proposes 'exciting' new changes to the way Humans have done things for thousands of years- under the psychology that betas FEEL cleverer when trashing the actions of the predecessors. Beta interest in SF largely comes from this way of thinking. Beta nerds are useful, Orwell Animal Farm fashion, in forming the legions of bleating SHEEP who drown out the voice of experts explaining very clearly why the ideas of people like Gates are so dangerous and stupid.
AIDS came from breaking the protocol on animal sources for the materials used in new vaccines, causing a long existing infection to jump the species barrier entirely because of the 'sci
I've often wanted to tell Bill to eat shit. So, there's something vaguely satisfying in seeing him drink it.
Extra! Extra! Read all about it! Inventor of steaming shit is ok with drinking piss!
From BG blog one can conclude that the author belongs to the category of people unclear about the difference between a quantity of energy and a rate of energy production. To his excuse the common poor choice of kWh instead of the SI J (Joule J, 1 kWh = 3.6 MJ) as energy unit is just making energy discussions more confusing.
Why would anyone want to turn waste into drinking water and electricity?
Because a shocking number of people, at least 2 billion, use latrines that aren't properly drained. Others simply defecate out in the open. The waste contaminates drinking water for millions of people, with horrific consequences: Diseases caused by poor sanitation kill some 700,000 children every year, and they prevent many more from fully developing mentally and physically.
If we can develop safe, affordable ways to get rid of human waste, we can prevent many of those deaths and help more children grow up healthy.
Western toilets aren't the answer, because they require a massive infrastructure of sewer lines and treatment plants that just isn't feasible in many poor countries.
One idea is to reinvent the toilet, which I've written about before.
Another idea is to reinvent the sewage treatment plant.
Today, in many places without modern sewage systems, truckers take the waste from latrines and dump it into the nearest river or the ocean --- or at a treatment facility that doesn't actually treat the sewage. Either way, it often ends up in the water supply. If they took it to the Omniprocessor instead, it would be burned safely. The machine runs at such a high temperature (1000 degrees Celsius) that there's no nasty smell; in fact it meets all the emissions standards set by the U.S. government.
Before we even started the tour, I had a question: Don't modern sewage plants already incinerate waste? I learned that some just turn the waste into solids that are stored in the desert. Others burn it using diesel or some other fuel that they buy. That means they use a lot of energy, which makes them impractical in most poor countries.
The Omniprocessor solves that problem. Through the ingenious use of a steam engine, it produces more than enough energy to burn the next batch of waste. In other words, it powers itself, with electricity to spare. The next-generation processor, more advanced than the one I saw, will handle waste from 100,000 people, producing up to 86,000 liters of potable water a day and a net 250 kw of electricity.
From Poop To Potable: This Ingenious Machine Turns Feces Into Drinking Water
We drink filtered rain water from our tank, beautiful.
After drinking some really bad water from various water treatment plants in cities and towns around Australia, can't go past rain water.
There are a few water recycling plants in SE Queensland, but generally for non-drinking purposes.
All my life I've known water is the most important ingredient for life.
I thought Bill was a straight, never picked him for watersports (urophilia)
Go well
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Did anyone really think Bill Gates would have the opinion "We can never drink water molecules that used to have poop next to them. That's just gross."
People can be skeptical whether a particular water purification process is adequate, but anyone who thinks water can't be purified is just an idiot and probably also homophobic (i.e. the category of people who are compelled to irrationality regarding things that seem gross to them).
Say what you want about Bill Gates, but he doesn't seem like the type to be idiotically irrational.
Well,
We always knew he was full of shit. This proves it!
We normally use the natural biology of streams to do this. One town dumps their sewage plant output (clean enough it won't kill you, but not healthy) into a stream. The next town picks up this same water and pulls it into a water plant. In between is the missing step, biology at work.
In the 50's, a severe drought caused a small town in Kansas to pipe their sewage plant into their water plant. I do not know what happened, but it did not last long. But, it is now in the engineering textbooks. I thought there were desert towns in the US already doing this?
If he is investing in this tech, does that mean he just put his mouth where his money is? ;)
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640 pollutants ought to be enough for anybody.
This is not the sig you're looking for.
That says Tommy Lee can do this in some sort of perpetual circle. Whatever that means.
Pretending this is my office full of bitter coworkers..
With that, Gates opened himself up for Windows jokes wider than goatse
Table-ized A.I.
... is Windows9?
Who cares if you can distill clean drinking water from human excrement? What matters is, is it economical?
Many, big cities have been recycling sewage for decades. It started in the 1970s. Why is this news?
The oceans are still 90% fish pee.
I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?
Bill Gates Endorses Water From Human Waste
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Bill endorsing it is a start. If perhaps the pope could also bless it, that might make it potable.
-Dave
I guess I expect more intellegence from slashdot readers, it used to be that way any way.
Comments about "Gates selling shit" and "its faked" do nothing except show that you are ignorant and childish. What comes out of that unit is both distilled and then filtered (probably some sort of reverse osmosis filter that could do an ok job of cleaning the water on its own.) Since it is distilled there is no bacteria in it unless it it has been recontaminated further down the line.
The whole point of this is that there are plenty of places in the world with not much in the line of clean drinkable water. People live in those places. Poor people living in poor countries that can't afford (or chose not to) provide clean drinking water to thier people. Those peoples health and well being would be greatly improved by having safe clean water available. Their lifestyle and economic well being would be greatly improved if that water was available somewhere close to where they live.
Here is a solution that will take something that is found in abundance everywhere humans and their animals live and turn it in to something that is needed and desired enough that a person may be able to make a living running the thing. It is a solution that a small company (or village) could afford, as opposed to something costing tens of millions of dollars.
Here is a link to the web site of a small town in the US that just spent $21 million on a treatment plant plus another 30 million on sewage lines:
https://www.gocolumbiamo.com/P...
How many little third world villages do you suppose can raise $51 million?
Way to go Mr Gates!
Every wrong attempt discarded is a step forward - T. Edison
Are water's most recent memories the most strong?
Bill Gates, shit eater.
Where can I donate My "water" for Bill Gates drinking supply? I would be happy to keep him well hydrated.
I expected bodies hurled in a mechanical squeezer the soylent green way.
Bullshit.
There are several problems which have caused what you refer to as childish comments.
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1) Gates is involved. Gates is a proven corporate rogue who, while a significant section of the World's population admire him (generally those more ignorant of his history, some even thinking he invented computers), he only generates dislike and cynicism among those concerned about his history of cheating and extortion. They see his "green" and "humanitarian" activities merely as an attempt to repair his bad reputation.
2) Technology for recycling sewerage has existed for years. Gates is posing as if he were involved in a new inverntion.
3) There are some simple low-tech solutions to these problems. Water shortages tend to occur where settlements have sprung up in areas in past times where water was adequate (they would not have been settled otherwise) but it has since ceased to be, or because a past irrigation/water supply system has broken down through neglect.. A better solution might be for the people to give it up and move to a location nearer a river from which water can easily be piped (using wind pumps) and filtered much more easily than sewerage can. In fact they may already be near enough.
Plastic piping is really quite cheap, wind pumps are low-tech, and the rivers of the world currently dump vast quantities of fresh water into the sea every day. I understand that there are stacks of plastic pipes in some African villages, put there by humanitarians for making water supplies, that no-one has actually bothered to assemble. What is needed is some organisation and effort, perhaps by the villagers themselves. So what chance of maintaining Gates' apparatus?
I am probably one of those you consider unintelligent, childish etc as I have made some critical comments earlier, but keep it going because I feel very secure against that. Just to make sure here it is again
Gates talks shit, sells shit, and is a shit.
As clear as it gets!
Some people were seriously admiring his forced mosquito laser non-solution for solving things that DDT effectively solves.
But no, we must think of the children or whatever crap instead of using proven solutions.
I endorse population control so I don't have to drink someone's PISS
Growing up in SE lower Michigan, most of the municipal water was provided by the Detroit metro water supply, which for years was considered one of the best (quality) water systems in the country. (perhaps not so anymore, based on some recent news articles) The water is collected from the middle of Lake Huron, north of Port Huron. There are thousands of cottages along the lakeshore, with many of them having septic systems which empty into the lake. However, sunlight is good at sterilizing water (eventually), and there is a LOT of water in the Great Lakes (~20% of the world's fresh water), so what goes into the pipe is pretty good, even before the filtering and chlorination process.
I still wouldn't drink the lake water unprocessed, but I never had any concern about swimming/skiing in it. Which inevitably means I swallowed some, as I am not a very good water skier.
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like most things once it's a large scale business somebody is going to look to cut corners. You don't do it directly. You just cut everybody's budgets until it happens "out of sight, out of mind". Heck, you don't even need to cut their budgets, just don't _raise_ them and wait for inflation to do it for you. At 2-5% every year that's a nice profit margin increase.
So you don't check/change the filtration equipment as much anymore. Your guys are working 16 hour shifts for 20% less than minimum wage 5 years ago thanks to inflation and driving them to work more hours. Suddenly stuff gets into the water that shouldn't. Maybe a few people get sick, maybe a few over 50 die....
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It's funny how the American voices the video and we're given no help understanding his nasty accent, but for the couple of sentences from the African man (who is perfectly clear) we get huge karaoke text taking up half the screen.
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I am probably one of those you consider unintelligent, childish etc
Yep, and nothing you have said has changed that opinion.
The City of San Diego operated a pilot plant in Mission Valley near Jack Murphy Stadium to process wastewater into drinking water. It worked. I was a Water Plant Operator and know the process is safe when waste plant operators follow the proper procedures. The water produced was just returned to a sewer line 'cause it wasn't allowed to be used for drinking. A local news guy did a feature about the plant and took a drink from a gallon jug of recycled water. All hell broke loose. The State officials went crazy! Another pilot plant used chlorine and UV to disinfect water. That worked, the water lab sampled and tested three times/day.
In other news:
Windows 10 gets released this week.
Well not really an XKCD but a What-If.
"As certain as the changing of the tides is the utter putrescence of what lies beneath them. Caked with filth, brimming with urine and home to some of the world's most vile creatures, tidal zones are nature's symbiotic waste dumps."
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nwz37vF-BI4
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While I don't know definitively if this is true or not, I did spend some time deployed out in a desert and it was most fascinating that the water bottling facility was on one side of a brick wall and the sewer treatment facility was located on the other side of the wall. ... I don't think that was by accident.
that means I can be my own recirculating system
Yes, this has been going on for a long time now. How is this new?
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I won't kiss him - that's for sure